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Hi all.
I a a bf3/bf4 player and have a fastpath internet connection.
I play mostly on german servers and my pings were usually around 40-45 ms.
As of yesterday, i noticed my ping to any bf3/bf4 server increased by 20-25 ms. So now my pings are about 65-70 ms which is a big bad leap. I had also set up the port foward ports for bf3/bf4 and today i checked with a tool that these ports were closed to listening to.
Could you help me identify any possible reasons?
Firewall and Anitivrus are disabled when i play/test pings.
 
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I'm assuming you already have those ports open, and if you do, then you could try having the server's port (assuming it's not listed between any of those ranges and what not) in your port forward setup. I don't think it'll make a huge difference in your latency though.
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More traffic = higher ping from my understanding. If on either end or in between has any kind of traffic differences, then it'd probably affect the latency slightly. 20-25ms difference isn't horribly big. The responsiveness will drop, but I've had that kind of shift before in some fps games and it didn't really change too much.
 
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Thanks for replying. For me these changes have some latency issues which i notice. Meaning sometimes hitting a guy first but seeing that he is hitting me after and i get killed. Its a little annoying.
Also can you help with the port foward stuff? Why some ports which were open before now are closed? Or can i see during Battlefield which ports it uses?
Generally does port forward reduces ping or no?
 
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From my experience with CS:GO (unless I'm forwarding the wrong ports), I haven't had much change in the latency itself. I think it is suppose to, but I myself haven't seen a change from port forwarding. You could check to see if the server you're connecting to is using a different port now or something, not sure how unless the port is given.
 
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For bf3 they state "If you are playing on PC, please enable the following online ports on your connection:
TCP: 80, 443, 9988, 20000-20100, 22990, 17502, 42127
UDP: 3659, 14000-14016, 22990-23006, 25200-25300"

Does the server port stated in the gametracker page should be placed in my portforward setup?
 
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I'm assuming you already have those ports open, and if you do, then you could try having the server's port (assuming it's not listed between any of those ranges and what not) in your port forward setup. I don't think it'll make a huge difference in your latency though.
 
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bill001g

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If your ping is a constant value that does not jump around a lot even at different times of day then it likely your ISP or another ISP in the path has a issue and the traffic is running on a backup connection. Its really tough to tell you would have to have traceroutes from before and after to be able to tell for sure.
 
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I have done a traceroute to the server. Could you tell me if the problem is outside my isp?

Tracing route to 176.57.184.21 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms pirelli.router [192.168.1.1]
2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms b5.met.cyta.gr [46.103.127.5]
3 6 ms * 5 ms 178-103-193.brsl3.cyta.gr [178.59.103.193]
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 78-2-210.itr.cyta.gr [78.87.2.210]
5 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 78-2-214.itr.cyta.gr [78.87.2.214]
6 66 ms 65 ms 120 ms ae55.edge5.London1.Level3.net [212.187.138.213]

7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 89 ms 88 ms 88 ms ae-4-90.edge7.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.20
3]
12 88 ms 88 ms 88 ms LINK-11-GMB.edge7.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [195.16.
162.2]
13 75 ms 74 ms 75 ms link11.ociris.com [80.95.152.210]
14 88 ms 88 ms 89 ms 176.57.184.21

Trace complete.
 
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bill001g

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It takes a number of traces and lots of digging and generally you can't do a lot.

What you can tell is your path is going via london....assuming the DNS is not a lie.

So your ISP is connecting to level 3 and goes to london and 65ms is not that bad to london. It then still on level 3 goes to germany and hands off the the final ISP ocris in frankfurt.

Other that this trace entries that don't respond and this could be a firewall or something it looks pretty normal.

When you were getting 45ms you may have gone directly to germany.

This issue you have is your isp cyta and the end game isp ociris do not have a direct connection. Each it appears buys their service from level3. This is actually a very simple case many times there are many many isp in the path. The path the data takes depends on lots of thing but mostly locations where the ISP have equipment in the same city and contractual obligations. In your case the question would be is the hop between 5 and 6 a connection your ISP owns or is it level3. If it is level 3 then it is strange it would take the long way. If it is your ISP then it would be more why you ISP does not connect to level 3 in a city closer than london.

Anyway you can only tell where the traffic is going today at this instant. You would have to have had a trace when it was lower to compare.
 
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gommerspider

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Thanks for replying.
Unfortunately i did not do a tracert when i was having a the 45ms. I guess there is nothing i can do since even if it is my isp it will not change the level3 routing for me. I will keep tracing though for a few days.

 
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